Stories of Southern Italy

Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the Unknown Mariner Vincenzo Consolo depicts the island in 1860, on the frontline in Italy''s war of independence. The South''s legendary legacy of brigandage and organized crime enlivens the stories of Leonardo Sciascia, Carlo Levi and Joseph Conrad. Curzio Malaparte and Norman Lewis immortalize the wreckage of Naples and the indomitable spirit of its people during World War II, and Elena Ferrante paints a spectacular portrait of a poor but vibrant Neapolitan neighbourhood in an excerpt from the bestselling My Brilliant Friend. Collectively, these entertaining tales plunge readers into the sometimes harsh and troubled, but always seductive and vital world of Italy''s Mezzogiorno

Product details

• Authors: Ella Carr, Di Lam, Elena Ferrante, Elsa Morante, Various
• Assisted by: Ella Carr (Editor)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781841596334
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-633-4
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 190 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Italy, Modern and contemporary fiction, Southern Italy and Islands, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / World Literature / Italy, Historical and cultural areas: Southern Italy and islands